Avery walked through the wooshing doors of Engineering as 0800 hours turned on the clocks around the ship. N'Vek was waiting for her. "Good Morning Commander" "Good Morning Ensign. How goes the Alien hunt ?" "Quite Odd, They've all left the ship. Should we contact the Commodore?" "Unfortunately, the Commodore had to leave us last night, had to attend to other matters back at the Base. Any ideas as to why they've left? is the ship still in orbit ?" "Yes, the ship is still in orbit, we're watching the emissions carefully. Mr. O'Brien is on the bridge right now trying to figure out a way for our sensors to break their sheilding" "Do we know exactly when they left the ship ?" " Yes left about 2 hours ago." answered N'Vek. " =/\=Commander Barlett we need you up here. N'Vek you'd better come too.=/\=" said O'Brien over the comm. "=/\=We'll be right there.=/\=" answered Barlett.

<<< Bridge, USS Scoperta>>> Barlet and N'Vek swoosh through the doors and Barlett sits in her chair while N'Vek stands on the deck. "What is it Mr. O'Brien?" asked Barlett. " The emitions from the ship just left orbit." responded O'Brien. " Where did they go?" asked Barlett. " They appear to have set a collision course with us." answered O'Brien. " Helm full reverse." ordered Barlett. "Shields up!" ordered Karplan. " We're being hailed." stated the Ops officer. " Open a channel." responded Barlett. " Channel open." said Ops officer. The face of the woman who shot Barlett on the station appeared. " Why do you keep spying on us!?! And how?" yelled the angry woman. " We're sorry if we've bothered you, but we have been looking for you. We know that you have technology that blocks the effects of the borg nano probes. We were wondering if you could share some with us." said Barlet as she stood up. " We are a closed society. We don't share technology with out siders." responed the woman. The woman turned, as if to ignore, Avery sprung to life "If you ignore me now, I will have you arrested for attempted murder of a superior officer." The woman paused "YES" Avery Continued "It was me you shot on the starbase. Put a tractor beam on them, and alert the base we have the assailant." A few beeps sounded and a nod from the com officer "it's confirmed ma'am, they're ready to send whenever you say." "Well ?" "FINE!" the screen went black and information started bombarding the screen. "Ma'am, there's an object materializing in Cargo Bay 4." "Good. Break off the tractor beam and be prepared to follow." "Aye" The tractor beam dematerialized and the ship took off like a bat out of Hell. "Follow Them!" The Scoperta followed closely, carefully, reaching up to warp 8 before they returned to impulse drive, just out of sensor range of the alien ship. They came out of orbit just a few thousand miles from a planet, senor readings said the one they were looking for. "Red Alert